Michelle Moseman receives ISU Outstanding Young Alumni Award

Michelle Moseman graduated from Iowa State University in 1998 with a B.S. in Computer Science and a Mathematics minor. While at Iowa State, she held leadership positions within Delta Zeta Sorority, Student Alumni Association, Cardinal Key Honor Society, Order of Omega Honor Society, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society. During her collegiate years, she had internships at Hewlett Packard in Boise, Idaho and PRC in Omaha, Nebraska.

She is currently in Kansas City, Missouri working at Cerner Corporation. Cerner is one of the leading U.S. suppliers of healthcare information technology solutions. She began her career with Cerner as a Software Engineer developing software using C++, ATL, and COM for the physician's office. She was a charter member of Cerner's C++ programming language board, which developed programming standards for all C++ developers. Over the past 8 years, she has held various other roles including a Software Architect responsible for the design of Cerner's critical care (ICU) solution, which had multiple patents filed, a Project Leader, and now the Director of Development Operations.

As the Director of Development Operations, Michelle is currently responsible for measuring software quality, engineer productivity, and process compliance across the entire Intellectual Property development organization. She is responsible for reviewing IP education curriculum as well as development processes. She acts as the community leader for Solution Designers (who define the requirements), Project Leaders (who manage the project plans), and Test Designers (who write the test plans) by facilitating the sharing of best practices across the organization and serving as their liaison with IP executive leadership.

Team based collaboration at Iowa State instilled in Michelle the importance of strong team work and communication within a culturally diverse environment. Additionally, her Computer Science education taught her universal skills, such as systematic problem solving, analytical thinking, a keen attention to detail, and an ability to learn on the fly. Because technologies evolve, having these universal skills enabled Michelle to smoothly transition between diverse roles at Cerner from Visual C++ and Java development to project management to data warehouse reporting.

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